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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2004 - 2005 McGill University: Table of Contents www.mcgill.ca Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office, Fellowships and Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office Awards Section 2 1.1 Location, page2 www.mcgill.ca/gps 1.2 Administrative Officers, page2 (click on "Fellowships and Awards") 1.3 A Message from the Dean, page2 Admission: 2 Financing Graduate Education, page2 www.mcgill.ca/applying/graduate 2.1 General Fellowships Information, page3 2.2 Reference Books, page3 University Calendars 2.3 Funding Information on the Web, page3 www.mcgill.ca/courses 2.4 Information for International Students and Fellows, page3 3 External Fellowships, page4 4 McGill Graduate Fellowships, page10 Please note that in the body of this Calendar, awards 4.1 Recruitment Fellowships, page10 are listed alphabetically by their complete official 4.1.1 Richard H. Tomlinson Fellowships names. In the index, awards are listed alphabetically 4.1.2 Max Stern Recruitment Fellowships by family name of benefactor if applicable. 4.1.3 Discipline-specific Recruitment Fellowships All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of 4.2 McGill Major Fellowships (for continuing students only), information in this Calendar. However, it is ultimately page11 the responsibility of fellowship and award seekers 4.3 Complementary McGill Awards to Major Fellowships, themselves to verify program deadlines and page13 requirements with the source agencies. 4.4 Dissertation Fellowships, page13 4.5 Differential Fee Waivers, page13 The Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office, 4.6 Graduate Studies Fellowships, page13 Fellowships and Awards Section cannot be held 4.7 Graduation Prizes and Awards, page13 responsible for any errors or omissions, but would appreciate being informed of these, for correction or 5 Fellowships awarded by Departments and Faculties, page14 addition in the next edition. 5.1 Multidisciplinary, page14 5.2 Medical and Health Sciences, page15 The University reserves the right to make changes 5.2.1 Various Medical Science Units without prior notice to the information contained in this 5.2.2 Faculty of Medicine: Internal Studentships Calendar, including alteration of conditions and values 5.2.3 Dentistry of awards. 5.2.4 Nursing 5.2.5 Physical and Occupational Therapy Published April 2004 5.3 Natural Sciences and Engineering, page20 5.3.1 Various Agricultural and Biological Sciences Units Design and production: 5.3.2 Chemical Engineering Admissions, Recruitment and Registrar’s Office 5.3.3 Chemistry McGill University 5.3.4 Earth and Planetary Sciences 845 Sherbrooke Street West 5.3.5 Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering Montreal, QuebecH3A2T5Canada 5.4 Social Sciences and Humanities, page27 Legal Deposit II April 2004 5.4.1 Various Social Science and Humanities Units 5.4.2 Law 5.4.3 Library and Information Studies Cover – 5.4.4 Management Centre photo: View from McGill’s central James Administration 5.4.5 Music Building, facing eastward towards the Milton Gates 5.4.6 Religious Studies 5.4.7 Social Work Small photos (from left to right): 6 Student Financial Assistance, page36 1. Macdonald Engineering Building 6.1 Government Student Aid, page36 6.1.1 Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada 2. Aerial view of Macdonald Campus 6.1.2 Citizens and Permanent Residents of the United States 3. Students head through the Roddick Gates on Sherbrooke St. 6.2 McGill Student Aid, page37 4. Early snowfall on the downtown campus 7 Postdoctoral Fellowships, page37 7.1 Internal Postdoctoral Fellowships, page37 7.2 External Postdoctoral Fellowships, page39 Cover design – 8 Exchange and Travelling Fellowships, page42 Max Stiebel 9 Index of Fellowships and Awards, page47 Aerial photo courtesy of Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences McGill University, Graduate Fellowships and Awards 2004-2005 1 FINANCING GRADUATE EDUCATION The staff of the Office is well-informed and friendly, and encour- 1 Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies ages all current and prospective McGill students to visit, call, e-mail or write to obtain further information on appropriate sources Office, Fellowships and Awards Section of funding for graduate education. Martha Crago, Ph.D. 1.1 Location Dean (Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies) and Associate Provost (Academic Programs) Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office Fellowships and Awards Section James Administration Building, Room 400 845 Sherbrooke Street West 2 Financing Graduate Education Montreal, QuebecH3A 2T5Canada There are different ways to finance graduate studies at McGill Telephone: (514) 398-3990 University. A graduate student can: Fax: (514) 398-2626 1) win a fellowship from an external granting agency; E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.mcgill.ca/gps 2) win an internal McGill Graduate Fellowship; 3) win a McGill departmental or faculty award; 1.2 Administrative Officers 4) obtain a stipend from their supervisor’s research grant or con- tract; Martha Crago; B.A., M.Sc.A., Ph.D.(McG.) Dean (Graduate and 5) receive funding in the form of loans and bursaries from the fed- Postdoctoral Studies) and eral or provincial government; AssociateProvost (Academic Programs) 6) receive a differential fee waiver for the international fee supple- J.A. Nemes; B.Sc.(Maryland), M.Sc., D.Sc.(GWU) (William ment. Dawson Scholar) AssociateDean (Graduate and In 2001-02, graduate students received over $6 million in McGill Postdoctoral Studies) fellowships and $4.6 million in salaries. They also attracted Charlotte E. Légaré; B.Sc.(Montr.), M.Sc.(Sher.), M.B.A.(McG.) approximately $10 million in fellowship funding from Canadian and Director, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office Quebec Government sources, as well as $1.4 million in differential fee waivers for international students from the Quebec govern- Claude Lalande, B.Sc.(Montr.), M.B.A.(McG.) Manager, ment. Over $13 million form research grants and contracts was Fellowships andAwards devoted to graduate student support. Preliminary estimates indi- cate that over $4 million in fellowships was obtained through other Manon Lemelin External Fellowship Competitions external sources. Brenda Stewart McGill Fellowships and Differential Fee Waivers 1) External Granting Agency Fellowships are listed in section3, “External Fellowships”. Currently, the value of awards Cathy Duggan Reception and General offered by these agencies (including those supported by the Cana- Funding Information dian and Quebec governments) varies from approximately $15,000 to $21,000 per year. Many may be renewed. Application 1.3 A Message from the Dean deadlines for the majority of external granting agency fellowships fall during October to November, for fellowships tenable in Sep- Graduate study and research in all scholarly, scientific and tember of the following year. Fellowships offered by external grant- professional disciplines depends upon adequate financial support ing agencies for postdoctoral level study and research are for students and postdoctoral fellows. At McGill University, the described in section7, “Postdoctoral Fellowships”. Opportunities Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office, Fellowships and for funding to pursue graduate study and research outside of Can- Awards Section provides information and administers several ada are listed in section8, “Exchange and Travelling Fellowships”. major internal fellowship competitions each year. The Office also coordinates McGill applications and distributes information related 2) McGill Graduate Fellowships are described in detail in section4, “McGill Graduate Fellowships”. McGill Major Fellow- to numerous graduate and postdoctoral fellowship and award competitions administered outside the University. The Office ships (valued at $10,000 - $15,000 per year, for one or more years) are offered only to students already enrolled in a Master's works closely with individual applicants, academic departments at McGill, and external granting agencies in order to facilitate appli- or doctoral program at McGill, who meet the specific eligibility cations for all these sources of funding. requirements of the year's competition. Details regarding eligibility This Graduate Fellowships and Awards Calendar is published and specific deadlines for McGill Major Fellowships are available yearly by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office (GPSO), in early September from departments and the GPSO Fellowships and Awards Section Web site. For McGill students in the social sci- Fellowships and Awards Section to furnish current and prospec- ence and humanities disciplines, the McGill Major Fellowship tive McGill students with information about financing graduate education. It contains descriptions of all McGill's internal graduate application deadline coincides with that of the Social Sciences and fellowships, as well as many external fellowships tenable for grad- Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowships com- uate and postdoctoral level study. In addition to this Calendar, the petition (generally during the month of October). For McGill stu- Office maintains a computerized data bank of many other, smaller dents in the natural science and engineering, and medical science or more specialized external fellowships and awards. disciplines the deadline coincides with that of the Natural Sciences Students seeking admission to a McGill graduate program and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postgraduate Schol- arships competition (generally during the month of October). All should note that individual academic departments make decisions about